Split a field into 3 columns for a report - Shoud be done in R/3 or BW

Hi all,
I have to split a Text Description (TXTMD) into 3 columns for reporting.
This description is available in R/3 table and in BW InfoObject.
What is the best way to accomplish this task ?
Should I enhance the Extract structure and fill those 3 new ZZ fields on R/3?
Should I do it on BW side ? How, please ???
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Venkat.

If the purpose of splitting is to overcome the limitation of Infoobject, I would recommend doing that in BW side for a couple reasons: You don't need worry about having R/3 transport and also if you are working on LO extractors you don't need to worry about setup tables. Secondly, it is easy to manage the fields in BW side than R/3, because you will be sending fewer fields.
thanks.
Wond

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set oTIDs to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to d
set l to text items of t
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on recolle(l, d)
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set oTIDs to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to d
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